Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the ONS provisional Statistical bulletins on Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, published January 2023, if he will make an assessment of the reasons for which excess deaths have increased in the first three weeks of 2023.
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Hon. Member's Parliamentary Question of 3 February is attached.